Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There the miracle ended. Photographers approached Georgia's Governor, asked if he would pose shaking hands with the Secretary of the Interior before the Lincoln tomb. He agreed. When they approached Mr. Ickes with the same proposition, that New Dealer roared: "I will...
...Lincoln knew that Government was not made for the specific purpose of taxing the people to the point where they were either paupers or thieves. Lincoln knew that patronage was the greatest enemy of all governments. . . . Would that we had a man like Lincoln in the White House today. If we did, he would never allow a brain-trusters' creed to teach the doctrine that you can boondoggle yourself back to prosperity...
Secretary Ickes then took his turn at the lectern, drew his moral from the text of Lincoln's life. Said he: "It appears to have been Abraham Lincoln who scuttled the American Constitution, set up a dictatorship, threw the Supreme Court into the Potomac River and declared a moratorium on Congress. In fact, General George B. McClellan ran against him for President in 1864 on a 'Save-the-Constitution' platform...
After the banquet Artist Taft told friends of his latest encounter with State authorities. Commissioned to do an Illinois memorial of the Lincoln-Douglas debate, he was told that in his preliminary sketch the figure of Stephen Douglas was not prominent enough. "I told them that the fault was not mine but God's," chuckled Lorado Taft, "and they haven't answered...
...door in Charles County, Md. and asked for help. One had a broken leg; Dr. Mudd set it. Later that day the horsemen galloped away. The injured one was John Wilkes Booth. For his services, Dr. Mudd found himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fort Jefferson, on the dry Tortugas, off the southern tip of Florida. He tried to escape, failed, was put in a solitary dungeon. When yellow fever killed the prison's doctor and scores...